Ensuring Business Continuity and Operations Recovery
Course code: BTA-301
Title: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Course length: 14 (fourteen) academic hours / 11.25 CPE Hours
Audience: Information technology specialists, information security specialists, risk management specialists, novice specialists in the field of information technology or security
Prerequisites: knowledge of the basics of industry legislation and international standards in the field of information technology and information security, knowledge of the basics of risk management, understanding of information system architecture, understanding of the principles of operation and construction of data transmission network topologies
Course program:
- Fundamentals of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- History of emergence
- Importance of continuity in various industries
- Overview of international standards
- Business Impact Assessment (BIA)
- Asset inventory
- Assessment of the criticality of assets, premises, and property
- Dependence on external resources
- Understanding key recovery indicators
- Threats and risk analysis
- Regional threats to the Kyrgyz Republic: anthropogenic, technogenic, and natural
- The concept of a single point of failure and ways to eliminate it
- Attacks on the supply chain
- Insiders and sabotage
- Impact scenarios
- Calculation of potential damage
- Assessment of medical and other emergency assistance needs
- Assessment of logistics and computing power needs
- Disaster preparedness
- Seven levels of preparedness
- Methods for ensuring business continuity or recovery
- Critical infrastructure
- OpSec for critical infrastructure
- Protection of industrial control systems (SCADA)
- Implementation and testing
- Development and implementation of plans to ensure continuity and recovery of operations
- Types and methods of testing plans